USS Southerland (DD 743)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Gearing
Pennant	DD 743
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	27 May 1944
Launched	5 Oct 1944
Commissioned	22 Dec 1944
End service
History	Reclassified as DDR-743 on 18 March 1949. Reverted back to DD-743 on 1 April 1964. Decommissioned at an unknown date. Stricken 23 February 1981. Became a target hulk in 1983 and finally sunk as a target on 2 August 1997.

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Russell Champion Williams, USN	22 Dec 1944	18 Oct 1945
2	T/Cdr. Duncan Patterson Dixon, Jr., USN	18 Oct 1945	4 Oct 1946

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